The Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby

This past Saturday Ridge competed in his 1st derby! We think he did awesome.

Ridge came in 3rd out of about 25 cars. And won 6th overall ( out of about 60 cars) He won 3 of his 4 heats.

We were there for hours. The competition was fierce and exciting. We had a really good time. ( Especially because he was winning!) Michael already has ideas and plans of how to make it even faster for next year.
The making of the car...

Ridge drew Michael a picture of how he wanted it to look. So Michael whittled it out for him.(we decided that you just can't give a 7 year a big knife so Dad helped.)

They said it was a roadster. And it looked to me like the ZZtop car, at least that is what I called it. Ridge picked out his colors and painted it and I helped him with the flames on the sides. He wanted the number 24 on it. ( Jeff Gordon his favorite) And he had a star on top of it. Ridge really loves cub scouts, he looks forward to it every week